On 2004/07/08 23:32EDT Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > [slash@roque slash]$ less INSTALL.rpm > INSTALL.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest): > INSTALL.rpm (END) > [slash@roque slash]$ file INSTALL.rpm > INSTALL.rpm: ASCII English text > > Yes, file is correct. User slash is a fresh account, with only the > system defaults. Less is using /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, which is hard-coded to view *.rpm files as the output of "rpm -qpivl --changelog" instead of the contents of the file itself. You can unset LESSOPEN to revert to the expected behaviour. - Tom
